Новости за 28.07.2016

Pokemon Go players will have the chance to turn their hats backwards and catch ’em all in a mass “lure party” on Bank Street this Saturday. The Bank Street BIA plans to set up 25 lures along its street to draw the virtual creatures and attract players of the hit “augmented reality” mobile game in the hopes of generating […]

A Zillion Things Home … That’s the slogan for the online shopping site Wayfair.ca and boston-based online retailer certainly does that description justice. Launching into Canada in January of this year, Wayfair is still in its introductory stage north of the border. They have 7 million products on the Canadian site, catering to any style or budget, as well […]

It was “Christmas in July” on Thursday morning for a local home daycare owner whose toys were pilfered after a fake Kijiji ad offered up her “free toys” while she was away over the weekend. Ottawa radio station, KISS 105.3, stepped in with a successful toy drive to help Heaven Stewart after learning of her […]

Parks Canada will announce Thursday that the federal and Ontario governments have designated the Ontario portion of the Ottawa River as a Canadian Heritage River, culminating a decade-long campaign to win recognition for the river known as Canada's "original trans-Canada highway. "

A woman and her six-year-old son died when their minivan collided with a pickup truck in South Frontenac Township Wednesday evening. According to the Ontario Provincial Police, the woman was travelling northbound on Battersea Road in Inverary, South Frontenac Township around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when her van was hit by a pickup truck. Brenda Trautrimas, 37, of […]

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The tiny house movement is a growing part of the home building scene in Canada, and that’s why I get a steady stream of questions from people wanting to build tiny houses, but not sure how. Even people who like their full-size homes are curious. What’s the minimum house size that’s possible? Where can I […]

A Gatineau woman died Wednesday evening and a man is in hospital, but police and the coroner are still trying to understand what happened.  So far police say it doesn’t appear to be a crime, but this still needs to be confirmed. Police got the call from paramedics a little before 9 p.m. They had […]

Hours after the glitch-riddled Phoenix pay system was brought to a crashing, if temporary, halt following a smoke alarm in an Ottawa-area data centre, MPs are set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing technical issues that have plagued the service since it was rolled out earlier this year. While the agenda for […]

PHILADELPHIA – An evening of speeches by the giants of the Democratic Party belonged largely to Barack Obama, who spoke of a strong, generous and tolerant America which would not be undone by “homegrown demagogues.” Other than the obligatory barbed references to Donald Trump, Obama brilliantly evoked the themes of his first address (“not Red […]

There’s an adage about the circus business (its origin lost to me) and it goes something like this: It’s the job of the juggler to make the difficult look effortless, and the job of a magician to make the simple look challenging.  That, and more, not to mention various violations of that rule, will be on display […]

The news of Abdirahman’s Abdi’s death after a violent arrest hit close to home for a woman who shares two things in common with Abdi: mental illness and Somali roots. Ayan Yusuf, 29, has lived with the symptoms of schizophrenia for the past 10 years. And she has been an outspoken mental health advocate in Ottawa’s Somali community […]

Jim Watson’s mayoralty will be haunted by his decision to stay on vacation while the city struggles with the death of Hintonburg resident Abdirahman Abdi on his own doorstep. We can say with some sureness the police were called for reports that Abdi — 37 years old and described by his family as someone with mental health issues — was […]

Lara St John and Matt Herskowitz At Dominion Chalmers Reviewed Wednesday Lara St. John and Matt Herskowitz are a musical match made in heaven — or hell, depending on your sense of humour. The violinist and the pianist are both superb artists, with monster chops and nomads’ souls, and both attack whatever they’re playing with diabolical […]

Goals early in each half make the difference as Ottawa beats Carolina to record its first win streak of the NASL season.

Wondering what to do this weekend? Kirstin Endemann has some ideas.

Four children were among the seven people in a vehicle that crashed on Highway 417 during Wednesday’s rush hour. All four children, between the ages of six and 14, were treated for minor injuries by paramedics and transported to hospital. A 37-year-old woman suffered neck and back injuries and was taken to hospital in stable condition. An […]

Is there such a thing as the doldrums of summer? ‘Cause we’re still ready to rock out.  Enter Australia’s groovesome, genre-bending, earnest party band Cat Empire who are making their (hopefully) yearly trip to Algonquin College. Last year, they managed to exhaust even that young crowd by churning out eclectic dance tune after dance tune — albeit, not […]

Graffiti to Louis XIV portraits, enjoy fine art from all periods this week in Ottawa.

A local home daycare is out thousands of dollars worth of toys after a Kijiji ad was posted offering up “free toys” as part of the daycare’s closing sale. The problem: The daycare wasn’t closing, and the person who posted the ad wasn’t the daycare’s owner.  Heaven Stewart said she was on her way home from […]

Next up is Cody Ceci. After signing winger Mike Hoffman to a four-year, $20.75-million deal on Wednesday, the Senators will now turn their attention to getting one of their top young blue-liners signed before training camp. While Senators GM Pierre Dorion and Ceci’s agent J.P. Barry have turned their attention to try to get a […]

Early Monday morning before the sun came up, Terry Scanlon was doing what he has done six days a week for 33 years — setting up his hot dog cart at the corner of Bank Street and Laurier Avenue. That’s when two men threatened Scanlon, 71, taunting him and flicking him with a towel. “I’m […]

The Ottawa Humane Society and Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are headed to court after the provincial agency stripped the local humane society of its authority to investigate animal cruelty complaints. The humane society is asking a judge for an emergency injunction Thursday that will restore its powers to conduct investigations into neglect […]

Reducing suicide rates among Inuit begins with fixing the social inequities that have traumatized Inuit communities for generations, says a new suicide prevention strategy released by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami on Wednesday. “The social inequity that exists in Canada is unacceptable,” says Natan Obed, president of the ITK, the political body representing Canada’s 60,000 Inuit. […]

PHILADELPHIA – In a presidential race said to be close as the campaign officially begins, the Democrats have advantages: more money, a better organization, a bigger electoral map, superior analytics, a larger pool of prospective voters. Some of this may disappear over the next three months. The Republicans may raise big money, perhaps from Donald […]